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Hundred (ハンドレッド) (novel series)

Hundred (ハンドレッド) is a Japanese light novel series by Jun Misaki, illustrated by Nekosuke Ōkuma, published in 16 volumes under GA Bunko (2012–2018). A school battle action story about Slayers fighting Savages aboard the ship Little Garden; adapted into a 2016 anime and two-volume manga.

Hundred Acre Wood

The Hundred Acre Wood (also "100 Aker Wood") is the fictional forest setting of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories, inspired by Ashdown Forest in East Sussex and defined by E. H. Shepard's 1926 map.

Hungarian Songs

Hungarian Songs (Népdalok) are folk-song-style lyric poems by Sándor Petőfi, written chiefly between 1843 and 1846; set to music, they passed back into the people's own song repertoire.

HuniePop

HuniePop is an adult dating sim and match-3 puzzle hybrid by HuniePot, released January 19, 2015 for PC, Mac, and Linux after a Kickstarter; censored on Steam with an official uncensor patch, followed by HuniePop 2: Double Date.

Hunter × Hunter (ハンター×ハンター)

Hunter × Hunter (ハンター×ハンター) is Yoshihiro Togashi's adventure fantasy manga, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since 1998 issue 14, following Gon Freecss's search for his father, built on the Nen aura system, adapted to anime in 1999 and 2011, with over 100 million copies and frequent long hiatuses.

Hunters in a Narrow Street

Hunters in a Narrow Street (Arabic: صيادون في شارع ضيق) is a 1960 novel by the Palestinian-Iraqi writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, his only one originally written in English.

Huon of Bordeaux

Huon of Bordeaux (Huon de Bordeaux) is a 13th-century Old French chanson de geste in which the knight Huon, aided by the fairy king Oberon, completes impossible missions.

Hurriedly

Hurriedly (匆匆, Congcong) is a prose poem on the passage of time by the Chinese essayist Zhu Ziqing, written in 1922 and among the most widely read works of modern Chinese prose.

Hürriyet Kasidesi

Hürriyet Kasidesi, also called "Ode to Freedom," is a 31-couplet Ottoman Turkish ode by Namık Kemal written in 1867, turning the classical praise poem toward freedom and homeland.

Hüsrev ü Şirin

Hüsrev ü Şirin (خسرو و شيرين) is a classical love story of the Sâsânî king Hüsrev and Şîrîn, best known from Nizâmî's 1180 Persian mesnevi and Şeyhî's Ottoman version.

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha

Hutom Pyanchar Naksha is a Bengali collection of satirical sketches by Kaliprasanna Sinha, first published in 1861, portraying urban life in 19th-century Calcutta, capital of British India.

Hwangjoga

Hwangjoga (황조가) is an ancient Korean song attributed to King Yuri of Goguryeo, preserved in Chinese translation in the Samguk Sagi and dated to 17 BC.

Hyborian Age

The Hyborian Age is Robert E. Howard's fictional prehistoric era and setting for the Conan the Cimmerian stories, defined by his 1932 essay, linking Kull's Thurian Age to recorded history.

Hydra (comics)

Hydra is Marvel Comics' fictional terrorist organization, debuting in Strange Tales #135 (1965) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s enemy, led by Baron Strucker and the Red Skull, tied to Nazism, and central to the 2017 Secret Empire storyline.

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial is a treatise by Sir Thomas Browne, published in London in 1658, that began as a report on burial urns found in Norfolk and ends as a meditation on mortality.

Hymn to Zeus

Hymn to Zeus is the title shared by two Hellenistic Greek poems: a 39-line hymn by the Stoic Cleanthes of Assos and a longer courtly hymn by Callimachus.

Hymns of Callimachus

The Hymns of Callimachus are a group of six surviving Greek hymns by the poet Callimachus of Cyrene, working in Alexandria in the third century BC.

Hymns to the Night

Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht) is a cycle of six hymns by the German poet Novalis, first published in 1800 and written after the death of his fiancée.

Hyouka (氷菓)

Hyouka (氷菓) is Honobu Yonezawa's 2001 debut novel, first of the Classic Literature Club series, a Japanese everyday-mystery in which energy-saving Houtarou Oreki and curious Eru Chitanda investigate a 33-year-old incident behind a Classics Club anthology, adapted into a 2012 Kyoto Animation anime.

Hyperions Schicksalslied

Hyperions Schicksalslied ("Hyperion's Song of Fate") is a three-stanza poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, published in the second volume of his epistolary novel Hyperion in 1799, and best known as the text of Brahms's Schicksalslied.

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is an anonymous allegorical romance printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius in 1499, following Poliphilo's dream search for his beloved Polia through imaginary architecture.

Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II

Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II: counterfactual scenario and alternate history premise in which Germany, Italy, and Japan win; covers plausibility debates, scenario types, and fiction from The Man in the High Castle to Fatherland.

I Am a Cat

I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru) is a satirical comic novel by Natsume Sōseki, narrated by a nameless cat mocking humans in Meiji-era Tokyo.

I Am a Willful Child

I Am a Willful Child (我是一个任性的孩子) is a 1981 free-verse poem by the Chinese Misty Poetry poet Gu Cheng, in the voice of a spoiled child.

I Am from the Fiery Village

I Am from the Fiery Village is a 1975 Belarusian documentary book of survivors' accounts of Nazi village burnings, compiled by Ales Adamovich and others.

I Am Number Four

I Am Number Four, also known as I Am Number 4, is a 2010 young adult science fiction novel by Pittacus Lore, first in the Lorien Legacies series.

I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand

I Became a Legend After My 10 Year-Long Last Stand (Koko wa Ore ni Makasete Saki ni Ike to Itte kara 10-nen ga Tattara Densetsu ni Natteita., KokoOre) is a Japanese fantasy series by Ezogingitune: mage Luck holds a demonic horde alone for ten years, wins singlehandedly, and restarts as a rookie adventurer; light novel, Chaco Abeno manga, and 2026 Tokyo MX anime.

I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl

I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl (ロンリーガールに逆らえない) is a six-volume yuri romantic comedy manga by Kashikaze, released in English by Kodansha from March 2024 to March 2025, about Ayaka Sakurai's daily-wish bargain with truant student Sora Honda.

I Cannot Reach You

I Cannot Reach You (君には届かない。) is a boys' love manga by Mika about childhood friends Yamato and Kakeru, published by KADOKAWA with over 750,000 copies sold, adapted into a 2023 TBS live-action drama starring Kentaro Maeda and Haru Kashiwagi.

I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's 1948 debut novel, the diary of 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain living in a ruined Suffolk castle; a US bestseller Smith feared was dismissed as middlebrow, filmed in 2003.